§ 72. Mr. GILBERTasked the Minister of National Service whether he is aware that Army clerks who were employed in the Army on recruiting work, and who were transferred to the Ministry of National Service in January last and ordered to hand in their uniforms and appear in civilian clothes, for which they were allowed 30s., are still only receiving the Army rate of pay although they were put into Reserve Class Wand promised the civilian rate of pay of £2 12s. 6d. per week; and whether, in view of the impossibility of these men existing on their Army pay, he will have them paid the civilian rate forthwith from the date of their transfer to the National Service?
§ Mr. BECKIt is not the fact that soldier clerks employed by the Ministry of National Service and transferred to Class W, Army Reserve, are still on Army pay, nor was any promise made that such clerks should receive the rate of pay referred to by the hon. Member. Such men are paid on a scale commensurate with the responsibilities discharged, and at rates approved by the Treasury for clerical work in Government Departments.